Submitted: September 23, 2016 – 5:31pmOriginally published: September 23, 2016Last updated: September 23, 2016 – 5:33pmCoverage Type: reportingLocation: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States The Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days. Launching balloons into the stratosphere is a usual thing for the Google X lab—or just X, as it’s now called after spinning off from Google and nestling under the new umbrella called Alphabet. X is home to Project Loon, an effort to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people here on Earth. The hope is that these balloons can fly over areas of the globe where the Internet is otherwise unavailable and stay there long enough to provide people with a…